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Idonea

Overview

Title social-status
nun
Date of Birth
12th century

Biography

This may be the name of an unidentified nun, or it may be a pseudonym for Marie of Boulogne (Mary of Blois), suggested by Anne J. Duggan, The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-70 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2000) v.2.1232-35, ep. 289, n.1.

Letters to Idonea

A letter from Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (1170, May?)